Corfu, Greece

We again rented a small car and just took off with map in hand. No real idea of where to go, but we had heard this is the place for spectacular views and we were out to find them. We passed one of our banks and we needed some euro and since you pay a transaction fee each time, we take out the max. So I got out and Dave double parked. I went to the ATM and got $300 Euro – (aprox. $465 US dollars) once back in the car I put $150 euro in my purse and just for safe keeping the other $150 euro I folded up and put in my bra. Away we went, stopping at a bakery for some Greek treats and again on the top of a mountain for an espresso. Greece has many cats, they are everywhere, they roam around on the streets, they hang out on the ruins, and they snuggle against you leg when you are having a café` - they even seem to enjoy posing for photos - inserted is a great shot I got of a Greek cat. Dave and I drove off of the main highway and I was so overwhelmed with all of the gorgeous landscape that I just kept taking photo after photo. Dave said “let’s go down this road and get some better photos of the coastline” I agreed. We got out of the car and trecked it on foot – Dave laughed at a well that had spray painted on it “Nudist” we peered over the edge and Dave thought it would be funny to take off his shirt and prop himself up on a strip of earth inside of the well and hang onto the wall for a fake nudist photo. I took his snapshot and he pleaded with me to do the same … “No! I am not going to take off my shirt for a photo in Greece – no way!” he suggested I take the photo with only my back showing – no one was anywhere near us – no one would see me undress … so I climbed in and took off my top … but something fell into the well – “Dang it – my reading glasses! … Dave, something fell into the well I think it was my glasses – “oh God, no way, Dave – I think I dropped the $150 euro out of my bra and it fell into the well” – “That’s not funny Nora! “ …” ummm … I’m not trying to be funny dear, I really dropped the euro into the well”. “Take the photo quick, and then we’ll deal with it”. So Dave took my photo, then I dressed quickly. Now we had to devise a plan and fast. I always travel with a small first aid kit, so I had sticky band-aids, now what could we put the band-aids onto and lower into the well? Dave found some long wire from a fence – the well was about 8 – 10 feet deep and had many empty bottles in it, but we could see the Euro – crisp, folded and saying to us “come and get me if you can” I was just sick inside, how could I have forgetten that I had that much money in my bra? What a dummy! I wrapped the end of the wire with a loop of Band-aid stickiness – Dave lowered it down the well cautiously – “darn it, a bottle got in the way, let me move the bottle, then I can get it” - he said - Another try – successful in moving the bottle, but it got the euro wet and it was slowly getting heavier and starting to sink – another bottle got in the way – the band-aid was all wet now – “where did the euro go? Do you see it? Is it behind yet another bottle? “Gone, gone, gone forever. If anyone would like a map to the nudist well – we would be more than happy to draw it for you … for a small commission that is.
So – what do you do now? Well, I beat myself up for a while – Dave told me to just forget about it, it was done and over with. We wound up finding many great views and enjoyed a picnic lunch on the sand of a beach. We were on several mountain tops – had a great view from one which was called “Kaisers Throne”.

I would love to go back to Corfu – but next time I’ll keep my shirt on!